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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Prometheus vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

prometheus.io

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

prometheus.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Facebook, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

1991

2015

2013

1993

Current release

5.7

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

Numeric data only

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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